I wish all of our Divisions Colonies and
Chapters well with your
programs and meetings.

We have added a "members only" section of our website. We have
sent the username and password (which is case sensitive) to all of our members
who have been identified as members in our email program. Since that is
different from our member database it is necessary to individually identify
people as members in the email program so that is in process. If you are a
member and did not receive the the email with the password, please send us an
email with your full name and address with MEMBER and state in the subject line.

Continuing Theme: Short Term Goals - Long Term Vision

We introduced a page on our Website which identifies the
short term goals and long term vision for our Society, consistent with our
purposes and supporting our mission. This page will be periodically updated and
we invite suggestions. Please look at the "What's New" Page on our Web Site for
information.

1215 Magna Carta Tour - Overview

Do you have any pictures from the 1987 tour when Dean Finnes
brought the 1215 Magna Carta to the United States and transported it in a large
tractor-trailor across the country. I have found information on the web but
would like pictures and information which we can include on our website.
Personnel recollections would be especially welcome. I have heard from our
members that in some venues thousands lined up to view it. I understand that
when Lincoln Cathedral started planning for the Virginia Beach exhibit that Dean
Finnes recommended that our Society be contacted since our members were helpful
with his tour. On our website you can view his presentation this past July in
Lincoln describing that tour.

Exhibits, like unrecorded speeches, tend to be transitory and
we look for ways to increase their effectiveness. The three month Virginia Beach
Exhibit which you can view on our website was excellent and I would hope that
the video that was prepared for the Exhibit eventually can be shared. We
recorded the opening which involved a number of very effective speakers. A long
term result is that I understand that an exhibit case which is a self contained
environment was made and given to Lincoln Cathedral so that future exhibit
venues do not need to provide museum grade environments. This could
significantly reduce the cost of future exhibits so that funds could be
allocated to Lincoln Cathedral to interpret Magna Carta. The exhibit in
Philadelphia at the Constitution Center is an example. The vision and efforts by
the Constitution Center combined with the support from Verizon resulted in a
very effective three week exhibit. Our video of the the opening provides insight
into the enthusiasm for this exhibit and for the message of Magna Carta.

When Verizon was considering supporting the Philadelphia
Exhibit I received a telephone call asking for the link to the speech by Reg
Weaver given at Lincoln Cathedral. Reg is a very charismatic and effective
leader and his speech on individual rights was inspiring. I am pleased that our
video was able to assist with the decision to support the Philadelphia Exhibit.

I was pleased to be contacted by the New York Times the day
before the announcement that the 1297 Perot Magna Carta was to be sold and had
the opportunity to be quoted in a paragraph concerning the importance of
individual liberty and the rule of law. Actually I understand that the article
was one of the headlines on aol for a day. I emphasized the role of the document
as a rallying point.

There can be a number of Exhibit opportunities leading up the
the 800th anniversary in 1215 and I would welcome suggestions.

Report on video initiatives

During the past several months we have been
converting the older video which has been taken at our meetings from analog to
digital format. With effective use of Silverlight which is a new technology from
Microsoft. I am hopeful that we can transfer a portion of that video to our
website. While in some instances the camera was in a corner of the room, the
talks are excellent and the introduction portions especially can provide
reminders of magic moments. There is also a visual reminder of the commitment
and enthusiasm of our members which can be embraced by present and future
members of our Society.

I attended the
opening of the Magna Carta Exhibit in Philadelphia on July 3, 2007. We are delighted that the National Education Association presented
an Exhibit of Magna Carta at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia beginning
July 4, 2007, with support from Verizon. We encourage all to view this extraordinary document. Our Society
has been encouraging this exhibit for a number of years beginning in 2004 when
we invited the Dean of Lincoln to visit the Constitution Center as a potential
venue. The current United States tour of the Magna Carta started on March 30,
2007 with an opening in Virginia Beach.
The Philadelphia Exhibit includes the Emancipation Proclamation and a printing
of the U.S. Constitution. I believe that this is the first time the 1215 Magna Carta
has been in Philadelphia which provides a very special opportunity.

Video from Magna Carta/USA Week - 2007

This year Lincoln Cathedral hosted a
Magna Charta/USA Weekend on July 26 to 28, 2007 with the Tastes of Lincolnshire Banquet on
Thursday presented by former Dean Fiennes and the Magna Carta Lecture on Friday
presented by Mayor Meyera Oberndorf who has been Mayor of Virginia Beach for
over 20 years. We recently received video from Lincoln from this weekend and
have included it on our website.

Updated video from the 2002
Magna Carta 1297 Exhibit in Philadelphia

We have updated the video from the 2002 Exhibit.

The text of the Sotheby's Program for
the sale of the Perot 1297 Magna Carta.

There is an excellent hard bound book which has been prepared
by Sotheby's as the catalogue for the auction of the 1297 Magna Carta. That book
includes some excellent text which is included on our website. The book also
includes some excellent pictures of the various versions of the Magna Carta and
I understand that this book can be purchased from Sotheby's.

Membership Initiatives

We are pleased that many of our members have
appointed their successors. On the first page of the website there is a tab for
Successor Information which will explain succession in our Society.

If you are a member of our Society you may Propose your children for membership
using the Proposal Form for our Society. Your signature on the form will be
accepted as primary proof of descent and no additional documentation will be necessary. If
you propose another relative then descent would need to be established from your
common ancestor on your qualifying line.

Reissue of Magna Charta in 2015 - 800th
Anniversary - Reminder

We are continuing with planning for the Reissue
and welcome interest in a Committee to be established for this purpose.

Our March Newsletter provided information
concerning the Reissue Project and I encourage you to review that information.

Dinner in Washington DC - Saturday, April
12, 2008

Our Washington DC dinner is scheduled for
Saturday, April 12, 2008. Let us know if you might be interested in attending so
that we can send you an invitation when they are prepared. We are also
considering the addition of patrons who provide additional support for the
dinner. If you might be interested in participating as a patron please let us
know.

Magna Carta/USA Week - 2008

This year Lincoln Cathedral is planning a
Magna Charta/USA Weekend in June 2008. We will add additional information on our
website as it becomes available.

If there is interest in our organizing a tour
including Lincoln, please let us know. The purpose of our
educational tours is to visit locations of cultural and historical significance
primarily relating to the Magna Charta. We are undertaking to reduce the cost
while maintaining quality.

Participation in State Divisions and New
Divisions

We will be sending lists of new
members to most of the State Division Regents or local Regents.
If you are a member and wish to participate at the State or local level, please
let us know. The "members only" section of our website includes contact
information for our State Divisions. Please be reminded that it is necessary to
first be a member of the National Society in order to participate in State
Divisions or Chapters of Colonies.

Several of our members have expressed
interest in forming new Divisions. Thank you for your interest and we look
forward to assisting with this effort.

Greetings

On behalf of the Officers and Council of the
Society, I bring greetings with this Newsletter. We continue to develop
awareness of Magna Charta and its message. We ask each of you to participate
with us in continuing the long tradition of friendship and fellowship which has
continued over many years. We need to increase the number of members and friends
on our email listing. Please ask your relatives or friends to send us their
E-mail address. Please also send us the E-mail addresses of friends who are
interested either in lineage societies or in memorializing Magna Charta. For the
future, please propose new members for our Society. Please also attend your
local meetings and include your children and grandchildren. We have a very
special organization and I hope that you will help us to maintain its
traditions.

Thank You

We continue to be pleased with the response
from our members to update addresses and provide new addresses for those who
have been lost. Many members who were eligible to do
so have appointed successors. Updated address lists will be sent to the State Divisions. I am, however,
saddened to learn when our members are deceased. I and the Society are grateful
for the time, dedicated effort and financial contributions that many of those
members have given to our Society. As I update the deceased role with members
who I have worked with and known during the past seventeen years, I am reminded
that we need to express appreciation on an ongoing basis to all of those who are
helping to make our Society a wonderful organization. Thank You!

Potential Members

If you are not a member of our Society and
are eligible, I hope that you will join. If you are not eligible but share our
interest in history and genealogy, we encourage you to remain on our Email list.
We also welcome your participation in our ongoing genealogical research projects
and our Tours. We welcome and encourage new members and remind those submitting
lineage information to include copies of referenced material.

As mentioned in prior E-Newsletters,
membership continues to be of vital importance to our Society. If you wish to
speed up or facilitate the membership process, please include with the Proposal
Form a well-documented lineage (including copies of the documentation) to either
a known ancestor or to one of the qualifying Barons. If you have sent lineage
information without the copies, you may also speed up the process by sending
copies of the documentation. Lineage Forms are provided on the Website.

Contributions

We rely on member contributions for our
Society operations and we plan to build our endowment in connection with the 100th
Anniversary of the founding our Society in 1909. We hope you will consider contributions, including contributions of appreciated securities. Our
Society is a public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code.

Enhancement of our E-Mail list

Our email list is a separate list from the
roster of the Society. Initially we used Outlook for the list and we did not
indicate who was a member or which state they lived in. If you are a member of
our Society, please send an email message to
Chancellor@magnacharta.org and
write MEMBER in the Subject field followed by a space and then the abbreviation
for your state.

OUR E-MAIL LIST

We continue to significantly increase
our e-mail list. To those of you who are new to our list we welcome you
to receive our Electronic Newsletter and hope that you will find our Society and
our mission to be interesting. Since a primary mission of our Society is to
develop awareness of Magna Charta we wish to expand the circulation of our
Electronic Newsletter by increasing our e-mail address list particularly
including those who are members of lineage societies and/or those who
share our interest in the principles of Constitutional Liberty. I would like to
thank those who have shared their email lists since our last Electronic
Newsletter.

Our E-mail list is made up of those who have
sent us e-mail, of members and friends of the Society who have responded to our
Newsletter request for E-mail addresses and others who we believe might be
interested in our Society or mission. If you would prefer not to receive future
Electronic Newsletters, however, please let us know. If you have friends who you
believe might be interested in our Society, please forward this e-mail. If you
have received this as a forwarded e-mail, please visit our Website at for more
information about our Society. You may also contact our Society Office at
215-836-5022.